Swallow This Unfolding Origami Robot That Will Heal Your Stomach
Some people fold a thousand paper cranes, some people create unfolding origami robots that will heal your stomach lining. via Phys.Org
In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.
